On Friday 13 February 2004 06:56 pm, anton wrote: > >>Does anyone know if there's a way to make sure you get a certain IP > >>from the dhcp? My router won't assign IPs by MAC address, nor will it > >>allow me to surf with a static IP set. I have a Linksys BEFW11S4 > >>Router. Does anyone know a way around this? > > > > Marc; Why not set your PC to a static IP address? That would solve it > > permanently. > > (did he not say he can't use static?, sorry ;-) > Anyway, if I understand then your router is also your DHCP server? > Presumably you can log into it to configure it? In any case, what it > sounds like you need is to log into whatever is assigning you IP > addresses (router or other box) and set the temporary IP address lease > time that it gives the machines to a riduculously long time period. Or > do you? At varsity they have their leases run out after about a week, > but you can set your DHCP server (or maybe it is done from the client > machine) to ask if the machine wants its lease renewed. If this is set > to yes (or if you have a very long lease time), then it should > automatically reissue a lease for another time period. > I have probably not helped you much! But at least you know it is possible! > Cheers > Anton > > -=-=- > ... Windows 98 - the operating system of world records! > 100 million sold copies, 200 million installed copies, > 200 billion crashes.
Yes, I was thinking that. And no, Anton, I meant I can't use a static as long as my router had the dhcp set to on(or so I thought, read my other post). Thank you for your input. Marc
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